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Thanks to SLO County supervisors for saving water at Dairy Creek

Tanny Koeppel, Louise McCoy and Mary Pollock, (from left) on the 11th green at Dairy Creek. The golf course is seeing less water delivered from treatment plant as the inmate count at CMC and water conservation measures at the prison take effect. Greens get water but other areas much less.
Tanny Koeppel, Louise McCoy and Mary Pollock, (from left) on the 11th green at Dairy Creek. The golf course is seeing less water delivered from treatment plant as the inmate count at CMC and water conservation measures at the prison take effect. Greens get water but other areas much less. David Middlecamp dmiddlecamp@thetribunenews.com

I commend the majority of the county Board of Supervisors for not allowing our most precious local resource, water, to be wasted at the Dairy Creek golf course for the enjoyment of a small percentage of our population.

I find it ironic that the two supervisors whose districts are most affected by our continuing water crisis are the ones that voted for allocating water for it, while the people they are supposed to be representing continue to have their wells running dry.

Steven Matejcek, San Luis Obispo

This story was originally published June 10, 2017 at 7:48 PM with the headline "Thanks to SLO County supervisors for saving water at Dairy Creek."

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